Sen
July 25th, 2013, 07:18 PM
I think it'd be nice to have a Marathon Subforum for those who don't have any active games and have some free time to play.
What's a mafia marathon?
Usually super small (7 players or less) games which are meant to be over in a couple of hours: days and nights have very short durations, and players are expected to be online and active until the game is over.
What I propose:
- Signup stage shouldn't last more than an hour.
- Players can't join more than one marathon at once.
- Requires no setup approval: the mod is free to make a thread, which will be used for everything: from setup, to signups to the actual game.
- Results have no effect on site leaderboards or anything (marathon games won't show up in the list of completed games for a given player).
- Setup mechanics should be simple enough for players to read and understand in a few minutes: the idea is that they don't have to waste time checking the setup all the time.
How would it benefit the site?
- It allows people to play some Mafia while signups for a S/M/L-FM open up, which sometimes can take over a week.
- Allows mods to experiment and test scenarios and mechanics that they may want to implement later in bigger games.
- Players with limited schedules benefit from the fact that they won't have to spend 80% of their free time reading what others posted while he/she was away. Everything is real time.
- Helps players to create methods which deliver the most important information in a concise manner: You don't have time to write a 500 lines essay on why X is scum; find the key arguments and present them.
- Mistakes are way more common. You don't have the time to check and recheck what you're going to say. It's a good way to improve scumplay.
- Is fun as hell. Ever played a Lucid Dreamers game? ♥
What's a mafia marathon?
Usually super small (7 players or less) games which are meant to be over in a couple of hours: days and nights have very short durations, and players are expected to be online and active until the game is over.
What I propose:
- Signup stage shouldn't last more than an hour.
- Players can't join more than one marathon at once.
- Requires no setup approval: the mod is free to make a thread, which will be used for everything: from setup, to signups to the actual game.
- Results have no effect on site leaderboards or anything (marathon games won't show up in the list of completed games for a given player).
- Setup mechanics should be simple enough for players to read and understand in a few minutes: the idea is that they don't have to waste time checking the setup all the time.
How would it benefit the site?
- It allows people to play some Mafia while signups for a S/M/L-FM open up, which sometimes can take over a week.
- Allows mods to experiment and test scenarios and mechanics that they may want to implement later in bigger games.
- Players with limited schedules benefit from the fact that they won't have to spend 80% of their free time reading what others posted while he/she was away. Everything is real time.
- Helps players to create methods which deliver the most important information in a concise manner: You don't have time to write a 500 lines essay on why X is scum; find the key arguments and present them.
- Mistakes are way more common. You don't have the time to check and recheck what you're going to say. It's a good way to improve scumplay.
- Is fun as hell. Ever played a Lucid Dreamers game? ♥